By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n
Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas was named the sole finalist in Polk State College\u2019s presidential search Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The college announced Kamoutsas will make a campus visit June 3, and the board will make a recommendation that afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout the search process, he emerged as a candidate with a compelling vision for the future of Polk State College and a deep understanding of the College\u2019s mission and impact across the region,\u201d the press release stated.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Kamoutsas said it was \u201can honor to be blessed with this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am excited to contribute to that work in a new capacity while continuing to support strong partnerships between K-12 schools, colleges, and universities,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Kamoutsas was named the 29th education commissioner in June 2025. Previously, he was the deputy chief of staff for Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n
Last November, Kamoutsas\u2019 wife, Judge Rachel Kamoutsas, was appointed to the Sixth District Court of Appeal in Lakeland by DeSantis.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas was named the sole finalist in Polk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-270518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}